Breaking Into SQL Showbiz
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2010-09-20
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SQL Awesomesauce
SELECT: If ON preceeds JOIN, then how….
I got some excellent questions from my 24HOP session yesterday, and when presenting the same session at NTSSUG last night. ...
2010-09-17
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T-8d till SQL Saturday #52 (CO)
SQL Saturday: All the COOL kids are doing it!
It’s only twelveeight days until SQL Saturday #52 in Colorado! I’ll be...
2010-09-17
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Know a young IT go-getter? Get her nominated!
Yesterday, I told our Groupies: I feel give-y today. Is there anything you’d like me to promote for you? Wendy...
2010-09-15
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New Hotness: sys.sql_modules
I’m still old school in many ways. And they’re not the ways that let you get away with wearing wayfarers, or...
2010-09-15
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Brief Intro to Indexes and INCLUDE – TSQL Tuesday #10!
Content rating: Beginner
This blog was originally posted on December 17, 2009. I’ve pulled it out of the closet for...
2010-09-14
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Tip: Use System Views to Compare Column Datatypes
Let’s say that you have a staging table, that then loads to a destination table in the same database. If...
2010-09-13
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T-12d till SQL Saturday #52 (CO)
SQL Saturday: All the COOL kids are doing it!
It’s only twelve days until SQL Saturday #52 in Colorado! I’ll be...
2010-09-13
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Tip: RESTORE FILELISTONLY / WITH MOVE
As we’ve seen in recent DBARant-able tales, not everyone is completely familiar with methods of restoring SQL backup files to...
2010-09-08
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SELECT, Deconstructed
Today let’s expand on the logical processing order of SELECT that I mentioned in last week’s N Things Worth Knowing...
2010-08-31
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Blogs
Measuring RAG Solutions: Are We Retrieving the Right Information?
A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing...
Advice I Like: Lots of Ideas
By Steve Jones
“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent...
Building a DBA Agent for Your SQL Server Estate with MCP
Yesterday I gave a talk for MSSQLTips called “Building a DBA Agent for Your...
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Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization vs. Parameter Sniffing: What SQL Server Fixes and What It Doesn't
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Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas I
What types of secondary replicas are available for the Azure SQL Database Hyperscale edition?
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